A Noël Coward Classic Returns

'A Song at Twilight' puts all joking aside

Noël Coward seldom strayed from the profitable path of comedy, and on the rare occasions when he did so, it was usually to ill effect. But in 1966, seven years before his death, he put all joking aside and wrote an intensely personal play called "A Song at Twilight" in which he addressed the subject of homosexuality, a topic that he had hitherto taken great care to dodge. Rarely seen in this country since it ran on Broadway in 1974, "A Song at Twilight" was produced earlier this year...